This weekend the family and I took a trip over to Texas to see the grandparents, part of the excitement about the trip was due to my recent discovery of a movie theater in Plano, TX, Studio Movie Grill, that serves dinner during the movie. For some years I've wanted to find a local theater that did this, so we made plans to see a movie this weekend. Not knowing what to expect, we bought tickets early on Saturday and tried to show up about 20 minutes before the movie began. After all, we'd be eating there... we don't want to be ordering and receiving food while the movie's starting.
When we arrived, we typed our confirmation number into the touchscreen ticket window and got a printout for each ticket we'd bought. We walked inside where we got menus and a little plastic pager, handed our ticket to the ticket-taker and headed into the theater.
A few things surprised me right off, first that there weren't all that many screens and secondly that the movie theater was over half full already. The theater was arranged in a stadium seating fashion, with each row of seats being higher than the one in front of it. In addition to the normal stadium seating idea, the front of each row had a long bar extending the length of the row, like a long table while the back of the row had small half-circle tables with chairs at each table.
A few minutes after being seated, we pressed a button on the side of the pager (which lights up the entire pager) and shortly a waiter came over to take our order. Between the five people in our family that went, we tried the Garlic Chicken, Chicken Quesadilla, and the Cheddar BBQ Burger (with sweet potato fries). Everyone was extremely happy with the food... and let me tell you, there's nothing better than having a drink and munching on fresh fries during a movie rather than stale popcorn smothered in some kind of a buttery substance.
We had a great time, which I'm sure was helped by the fact that we all enjoyed The Illusionist. I'm convinced that this is how movies should be watched... after all, that's how I watch movies at home. In comfort, while enjoying a good meal.
Posted by Jordan at September 4, 2006 2:11 PM | TrackBack